No such thing exists. I can have 10,000 processes doing nothing and have a load average of 0.00. I can have 100 processes each sucking cpu as fast as the electrons flow and have a dead box.

Learn how to manage resource limits and you can tuck another feather into your fledgeling sysadmin hat ;)

david

Ryan Underwood wrote:

>Hi,>>On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:43:18PM -0400, jhigdon wrote:> >>>Have you tried this on any 2.5.x kernels? Just curious to see what it >>does, I plan on giving it a go later.>> >>>>I haven't, but a previous poster indicated that they had (2.5.74) with>the same results.>>I wonder if we could find an upper limit on the number of allowable>processes that would leave the box in a workable state? Unfortunately,>I don't have a spare box to test such things on at the moment. ;)>>Thanks,> >